Telling Contexts: Archaeological and Textual Studies in Honor of Elizabeth Bloch-Smith and Mark S. Smith
Synopsis
This volume honors the careers of Mark S. Smith (Helena Professor of Old Testament Literature and Exegesis, Princeton Theological Seminary) and Elizabeth Bloch-Smith (Princeton Theological Seminary) with contributions on the Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern archaeology by colleagues and students.
Chapters
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Front Matter
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“The Glory of Children Is Their Parents”Or, Putting the WAW in WAW Consecutive
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The Single-Copy Literary Manuscripts Found in the Qumran Caves
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Baal's Hurrian ChildrenA New Proposal for the Meaning of ḫnzr in KTU 1.5.V:9
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The wayyiqtols in Lamentations
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Psalm 85
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The Threshold in the Old Testament
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Psalm 45YHWH und das Königtum der Davididen
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Three Blind Men
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The Historical Philistines and the Samson Narrative
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Anger or Adultery?Text-Critical Conundrums in Judges 19
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Machir the Son of Manasseh and the Political History of Israel
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A Study in the Ethics of Killing and DyingPortrayals of the Heroic and Anti-Heroic in Judges
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Samson and the Fall of the Lion (Judg 14:6, 8)Manifold Contexts of a Mistranslated Metaphor
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Religious ReadingThe Rise of Study as Personal Piety in Deuteronomy and Its Significance
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What People MakeArtisanship and Recycling in the Tabernacle Story
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Emotion and Imagination in the Early Israelite Monarchy
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Hope Amid a a Groaning CreationPowerful Pharaohs, Golden Calves, and the Holy Name of God
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Thinking about ThinkingModes and Developments of Second Order Thinking in Ancient Israel
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The Aliyah from Egypt and the Jacob Tradition
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Judahite Burial PracticesThe View from Tel ‘Eton
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Trade across Borders in Times of Conflict
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A Seal Impression on a Mud Stopper from Tel Gezer
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Indexes
Published
June 10, 2026
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